(1) This Act may be called the Gujarat Physically Handicapped Persons (Employment in Factories) Act, 1982.
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Gujarat.
(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 7th October, 1981.
(4) (a) It shall apply in the first instance to-
(i) every existing factory where five hundred or more workers are working or were working on any day of the twelve months immediately preceding the commencement of this Act ;
(ii) every new factory where five hundred or more workers are working.
(b) The State Government may, after giving two months' notice of the intention of so doing, by notification in the Official Gazette, apply the provisions of this Act to other factories where such lesser number of workers are working as specified in such notification.
(c) It shall apply to a factory belonging to or managed by any Government except the Central Government, if such factory is a factory referred to in clause (a) or in the notification issued under clause (b).
(d) A factory to which this Act applies under clause (a) or (b) shall continue to be governed by this Act notwithstanding that the number of workers working therein falls below the number specified in clause
(a) or in the notification issued under clause (b).
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) "Certifying Surgeon" means a Certifying Surgeon appointed under section 10 of the Factories Act, 1948;
(b) "existing factory" means a factory existing on the commencement of this Act;
(c) "Inspector" means an Inspector appointed under section 8 of the Factories Act, 1948;
(d) "new factory" means a factory in which the manufacturing process is commenced at any time after the commencement of this Act;
(e) "person registered as physically handicapped" means a physically handicapped person whose name is registered with an employment exchange;
(f) "Physically handicapped person" means a person who, on account of any deficiency, injury, disease or congenital deformity, is substantially Short title, extent, commencement and application.
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handicapped in obtaining or keeping employment, or in undertaking work on his own account, of a kind which but for such deficiency, injury, disease or deformity would be suited to his age, experience and qualifications;
(g) "Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(h) (i) the word "employment exchange" shall have meaning assigned to it in the Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959;
(ii) other words and expressions used but not defined in this Act shall have meanings respectively assigned to them in the Factories Act,
1948.